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More Circuitous Quotes

This quote is filed under Circuitous Quotes, one of 16 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• By altering his arrangements and changing his plans, the skillful general keeps the enemy without definite knowledge. By shifting his… — Sun Tzu
• There is nothing more difficult than tactical maneuvering. The difficult consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune… — Sun Tzu
• The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long, but inevitably values will be constrained in accordance… — E. O. Wilson
• Creativity works on a winding, circuitous route. — Gail Z. Martin
• I came to acting in a very circuitous way. — Victoria Pratt
• Some journeys are direct, and some are circuitous; some are heroic, and some are fearful and muddled. But every journey,… — Parker J. Palmer
• Don't be discouraged. At times the path to truth is circuitous. The point is not to succeed, only to smile… — Frederick Lenz
• I should have had a circuitous answer; that was a non-answer. — Geraldine Ferraro
• All those things at which thou wishest to arrive by a circuitous road, thou canst have now, if thou dost… — Marcus Aurelius
• God moves in extremely mysterious, not to say, circuitous ways. God does not play dice with the universe; He plays… — Terry Pratchett
• For it is better, with closed eyes, to follow God as our guide, than, by relying on our own prudence,… — John Calvin
• Romeo wants Juliet as the filings want the magnet; and if no obstacles intervene he moves towards her by as… — William James

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